How many baby Val’s gundis are in a litter?
A Val’s gundi (Ctenodactylus vali) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 59 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 18 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Ctenodactylidae family (genus: Ctenodactylus). An adult Val’s gundi grows up to a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Val’s gundi (Ctenodactylus vali) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is known from two widely separated areas of North Africa.
Other animals of the family Ctenodactylidae
Val’s gundi is a member of the Ctenodactylidae, as are these animals:
- Speke’s pectinator with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mzab gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Felou gundi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Val’s gundi
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Collie’s squirrel
- Geoffroy’s cat
- Feathertail glider
- Slender rat
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Highveld gerbil
- African striped weasel
- White-footed tamarin
Animals that get as old as a Val’s gundi
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Greater cane rat with 4.25 years
- Forest giant squirrel with 5.08 years
- European hamster with 4 years
- Garden dormouse with 5.5 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with 5.75 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with 4.58 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with 5 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Val’s gundi
What other animals weight around 174 grams (0.38 lbs)?
- Ribboned rope squirrel weighting 141 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- White-tailed antsangy weighting 205 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat weighting 182 grams
- American red squirrel weighting 200 grams
- Annandale’s rat weighting 197 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel weighting 207 grams
- Stein’s rat weighting 151 grams
- Turkish hamster weighting 198 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum weighting 152 grams
Animals with the same size as a Val’s gundi
Also reaching around 17.6 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Afghan pika gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Samar squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Web-footed tenrec gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ochre bush squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plateau pika gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)